Roger Robinson
Roger Robinson is the recipient of the T.S. Eliot Prize and RSL Ondaatje Prize for APortable Paradise, which was also a New Statesman Book of the Year. He has been commissioned by The National Trust, the V&A, and the National Portrait Gallery, amongst others, and is a co-founder of Malika’s Poetry Kitchen and Spoke Lab.
Kobi Ayensuo
Kobi Essah Ayensuo is a poet, musician, theatre-maker creative of many hats based in London. Their practice often explores the intersections of their queer identity, Ghanaian heritage; navigating relationships and reimagining and decolonising the lens with which black history is told. Currently, Kobi Essah is a Barbican Young Poet and a Roundhouse Resident Artist.
muva of Earth
muva of Earth is a London born and raised alternative jazz singer and ASCENDING SOULSTRESS from tribe ‘Crown of Ọṣun’ in Yorubaland, Nigeria. By connecting to her roots, muva of Earth’s music explores the complexities of identity, the self and human connections over a bed of afrofuturistic rhythms and atmospheric horns.